Wednesday, May 30, 2012

With the Reds in Pittsburgh to play the Pirates, a robber ransacked Chapman’s hotel room late Tuesday night and tied up a 26-year-old woman inside, leaving her crying for help, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reported. Two guests heard the woman’s screams.

The guests, who were staying in a room on the same floor, went into the hallway to see what was going on saw the woman inside an open room with her hands bound by cloth napkins, police spokeswoman Diane Richard wrote in a news release.

She did not identify the woman, but said she was from Silver Spring, Md., and was “the hotel guest of a male who attended the Pirates baseball game and who was not present at the time of the incident. During this incident the male guest had various items taken and was later interviewed by detectives,” the news release said.

The woman, who was taken to UPMC Mercy, told police she answered a knock at the door to find a man claiming to be from the hotel’s maintenance department, there to fix a toilet.

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Because it is incredibly hard and virtually impossible to tie someone up with cloth napkins if they are unwilling. Cloth napkins do the trick if the person wants to be tied up but as far as a real restraint goes it fails miserably.

Burglar faking as a maintenance man just planned on ad-libbing it once he got in the door? Was he hoping they ordered room service ahead of time so he would have some napkins on stand by?

There are a lot of crimes and weirdness that go on in hotels. This story doesn't ring true and the reality is probably far far weirder than what we were told.

11 - The story is less odd and suspicious if we assume the woman was threatened. Nothing in the article indicates if the intruder was armed or not. Could be he was armed, wasn't anticipating someone would be there, and improvised.

Manrique told police that her attacker knocked on the door and said he was there to fix the toilet. She let him in, and he demanded items in the room. When she refused, he tied her up and stole jewelry, clothing, a notebook computer, credit cards, identification and other items, including dress shoes and a Gucci belt, police said.

Chapman and Manrique met two months ago in Washington, police said. He asked her to meet him in Pittsburgh, and she flew in on Tuesday.

Because it is incredibly hard and virtually impossible to tie someone up with cloth napkins if they are unwilling. Cloth napkins do the trick if the person wants to be tied up but as far as a real restraint goes it fails miserably.

Lots of weird stuff going on with Aroldis, with the lawsuit against him, the 93 mph speeding incident, and now this. Are we sure he's not some kind of international man of mystery? Maybe some sort of cyborg baseball-playing spy for Cuba? A super fast throwing arm would probably be the easiest baseball skill to engineer right?